mounting CDrom and CDRW for a newbie

[taking_the_music_back]

I apologize for the many questions, but here comes one more.

I have 2 CD drives, one is a standard 56x... the other is a 52X CdRW burner.

How do I mount these? I've tried looking for a guide on the internet, but these require me to know something called "fstab", which I know nothing about.

[tuubaaku]

fstab is a file located in /etc. it lists what partitions and drives to mount. You'll want to put your CD drives in that file. You can also use the "mount" command to just mount them right away.

See "man mount" and "man fstab".

[Chris H]

Also, do you know what kernel you're using?

[taking_the_music_back]

whatever the default kernel of Slackware 10.0 is...... it's either 2.4.2 something, or 2.6. I think it is the former, however.

[Chris H]

Chances are it's the 2.4.... kernel.

Anyways, your Slack install should have added the cd-R to the /etc/fstab file.

type

less /etc/fstab to see the contents.

An example would be

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso???? user,ro 0 0 or summat like that.

So all you have to do is add a data disk to the drive and type

mount /mnt/cdrom

You may get a permissions error, in which case add your user to the user group. If none exists add yourself to the users group and edit fstab to replace user with users.

Then browse the filesystem using whatever you use and you should see the contents of the cd in /mnt/cdrom.

If that works post back and we'll add your cd-rw to the system.

[taking_the_music_back]

root@darkstar:/home/blackenedwaters# mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems


I keep getting that error.....

[tuubaaku]

it might help to show us your fstab file.

[taking_the_music_back]

/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda4 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0

[Chris H]

Browse to your /dev directory and right - click - properties for cdrom. Where's it pointing to? And does where it's pointing to exist? It should be /dev/hdc if you have your cdrom attached in a typical manner.

[karl_axe]

'mount' works like this:

mount (options) (source) (destination)

options: are the ones listed in your man pages. this include FStype, etc..

source: is what you want to mount. in your case, your master cd drive
would be '/dev/hdc' and slave '/dev/hdd'

destination: is any folder (likely empty) in your filesystem where you
want the device mounted. most likely, they are in '/mnt'

to mount your master cd drive:
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom0

what you did wrong is you didn't tell 'mount' what to mount.

i might be wrong in the words i used but i tried to explain it in a way anybody can understand. hope this helps